Russia supplied 231.6 KMT of chickpeas to foreign markets in the 2016/17 season, or 7.5% more than in the previous marketing year (215.5 KMT was in MY 2015/16). Chickpea exports from Russia slowed down in the beginning of the current 2017/18 season. Russian exporters supplied 39.3 KMT of chickpeas to foreign markets in the first quarter of this marketing year, or 46% less than at the same time a year ago. Russian pulse production has been expanding rapidly since a few years ago. Russia’s 2017 output of pulses is up 27-30% year-on-year.